NASA completed analysis of an object that hit a Florida home in March and determined it was the remains of debris released from the International Space Station two years earlier.

In an update to the agency’s website, NASA said the hand-sized chunk of metal came from a pallet of nickel hydride batteries that were jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021 after new lithium-ion batteries arrived to the station.

The debris that hit the home in Naples weighed less than 2 pounds, and was determined to be a stanchion that was part of the support equipment in space used to mount the batteries onto the cargo pallet.

The entire pallet weighed about 5,800 pounds and NASA expected its entirety to burn up on reentry.

In cooperation with the homeowner,…